Mafi Kope residents appeal for urgent medical intervention over illnesses affecting children, adults

He explained that the municipal health directorate had ed the community in previous years to collect samples from affected residents, but the tests did not establish a definite cause linked to the reported conditions.

Residents of Mafi Kope, a fishing community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region, are appealing to the Ministry of Health and other relevant authorities for urgent medical intervention following reports of several illnesses affecting children and adults.

The Nkwanta South Municipal Health Director, Evans Attivor, confirmed to Adom News that cases of angular stomatitis, bilharzia and other skin infections had been recorded in Mafi Kope.